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- Oates enters 'tabloid hell' in new novel - Jam! Showbiz
Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real ...
- Did Robert Kennedy run 'The Last Campaign'? - Chicago Sun-Times
Did Robert Kennedy run 'The Last Campaign'?Chicago Sun-Times, United States - 42 minutes agoHis was a campaign, often laced with poetry, which appealed to people’s better natures. “Telling people the opposite of what they want to hear, ...
- Ananda to premier new songs in birthday concert - The Jakarta Post
Prolific pianist-composer Ananda Sukarlan will premier five new songs during his birthday concert at the Alila Hotel in Jakarta on July 17. To commemorate the year of his 40th birthday, Ananda will hold concerts in four cities: Santander (close to ...
- Art workshop for kids ensures their creativity has a chance to develop (The Florida Times-Union)
The hands-on art workshop Chloe Hammond attends after school is so fun, she said, that she can't even describe it.
- AP Top News at 7:48 a.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Change is coming, that much Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama agree on as they plunge into a five-month campaign for the White House. The primaries behind them, the presidential rivals were wasting no time drawing the battle line for a fall fight that will make history with the election of either the oldest first-term president in McCain or the first black leader in Obama. In ...
- Prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize goes to Blaser and Ashbery (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
TORONTO - Robin Blaser, poet and professor emeritus from Simon Fraser University, was handed the prestigious Griffin Prize for Canadian poetry on Wednesday night.
- Mizzou Basketball Q&A With Zaire Taylor (CSTV's College Sports)
Why did you decide to transfer from Delaware? "We had a new coach coming in and his style wasn't the best fit for me. This is a style of play I am more comfortable with and that wasn't the case at Delaware.
- You write the reviews: Roger Lloyd Pack, The Maltings, Wells-Next-The-Sea (Independent)
This was a good choice for the opening night of the 11th Poetry-next-the-Sea festival in Norfolk. Roger Lloyd Pack, best known for his role as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses, commands a good audience even when poetry is the main topic. He was talking to Dame Gillian Beer, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, in a Desert Island Discs-style format about his 10 favourite poems.
- Iraq: The Love Stories Are Gone - Antiwar.com
Iraq: The Love Stories Are GoneAntiwar.com, CA - 4 hours ago... is no longer good for love," Maki al-Nazzal, political analyst and poet, told IPS. "All Iraqi poetry under occupation is now about death and separation. ...
- School's out for summer, but learning shouldn't cease - Burlington Times News
School's out for summer, but learning shouldn't ceaseBurlington Times News, NC - 3 hours agoOne or more family members could read aloud - stories, poetry, jokes and riddles, a section from an informational book, anything the reader would like to ...
- Chautauqua features heroes of the natural world - Asheville Citizen-Times
Chautauqua features heroes of the natural worldAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 1 hour agoHer 1951 bestseller, “The Sea Around Us,†thrilled readers with the poetry of science. Eleven years later in her shattering classic “Silent Spring,†she ...
- Dog-Eared Days - Wall Street Journal
Richard Ford's summer reading list includes Richard Price's "Lush Life," Tobias Wolff's "Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories" and Gustave Flaubert's "A Sentimental Education." Here's what's on the lists of some more authors -- along with some ...
- Bibliofiles: New Letters' writing conferences lined up (The Kansas City Star)
When I was putting this column together, I misread one of New Letters’ upcoming conferences as “Writing for Love, Money & Sanity.â€
- Southwest Riverside County community news briefs for Wednesday, July 16 (North County Times)
Cowboy Jubilee to benefit plateau MURRIETA ---- A musical celebration of the ranching and cowboy way of life July 25 and 26 will serve as a fundraiser for the children's education program at the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve.
- Shakespeare, Wordsworth ... Winehouse? (Herald Sun)
A SONG by Amy Winehouse appears in a Cambridge University exam, pitted against Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Walter Raleigh.
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